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Date: 1 December 1956 / 4 December 1956
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Murray Rose | AUS | 4:27.3 |
| 2 | Tsuyoshi Yamanaka | JPN | 4:30.4 |
| 3 | George Breen | USA | 4:32.5 |
| 4 | Kevin O'Halloran | AUS | 4:32.9 |
| 5 | Hans Zierold | GER | 4:34.6 |
| 6 | Gary Winram | AUS | 4:34.9 |
| 7 | Koji Nonoshita | JPN | 4:38.2 |
| 8 | Angelo Romani | ITA | 4:41.7 |
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| 9 | Jean Boiteux | FRA | 4:37.9 |
| 10 | William Woolsey | USA | 4:38.2 |
| 11 | John Wardrop | GBR | 4:39.8 |
| 12 | William Slater | CAN | 4:40.4 |
| 13 | Anthony Briscoe | RSA | 4:41.4 |
| 14 | George Onekea | USA | 4:41.6 |
| 15 | Neil McKechnie | GBR | 4:42.6 |
| 16 | Boris Nikitin | URS | 4:42.8 |
| 17 | William Steuart | RSA | 4:43.0 |
| 18 | Hans Kohler | GER | 4:43.5 |
| 19 | Habib Nasution | INA | 4:44.0 |
| 20 | Per-Olof Ostrand | SWE | 4:45.9 |
| 21 | Peter Duncan | RSA | 4:46.7 |
| 22 | Jeno Ats | HUN | 4:47.6 |
| 23 | Sylvio Kelly dos Santos | BRA | 4:48.8 |
| 24 | Bana Sailani | PHI | 4:49.0 |
| 25 | Jacques Collignon | FRA | 4:49.3 |
| 26 | Karri Kayhko | FIN | 4:49.6 |
| 27 | Yoshiro Noda | JPN | 4:49.9 |
| 28 | Gilberto Martinez | COL | 4:51.4 |
| 29 | Guy Montserret | FRA | 4:52.6 |
| 30 | Ulpiano Babol | PHI | 4:53.4 |
| 31 | Raul Martin | CUB | 4:58.2 |
| 32 | Shiu-Ming Wan | HKG | 5:02.6 |